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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By : Alexander Raul
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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By: Alexander Raul

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is a modern cloud native container orchestration tool and one of the most popular open source projects worldwide. In addition to the technology being powerful and highly flexible, Kubernetes engineers are in high demand across the industry. This book is a comprehensive guide to deploying, securing, and operating modern cloud native applications on Kubernetes. From the fundamentals to Kubernetes best practices, the book covers essential aspects of configuring applications. You’ll even explore real-world techniques for running clusters in production, tips for setting up observability for cluster resources, and valuable troubleshooting techniques. Finally, you’ll learn how to extend and customize Kubernetes, as well as gaining tips for deploying service meshes, serverless tooling, and more on your cluster. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll be equipped with the tools you need to confidently run and extend modern applications on Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Setting Up Kubernetes
5
Section 2: Configuring and Deploying Applications on Kubernetes
11
Section 3: Running Kubernetes in Production
16
Section 4: Extending Kubernetes

Managed Kubernetes services

The number of managed cloud providers that offer a managed Kubernetes service is always growing. However, for the purposes of this book, we will focus on the major public clouds and their particular Kubernetes offerings. This includes the following:

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
  • Google Cloud – Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
  • Microsoft Azure – Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

    Important note

    The number and implementation of managed Kubernetes services is always changing. AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure were selected for this section of the book because they are very likely to continue working in the same manner. Whatever managed service you use, make sure to check the official documentation provided with the service to ensure that the cluster creation procedure is still the same as what is presented in this book.

Benefits of managed Kubernetes services

Generally, the major managed Kubernetes...